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A Town Called Malice (Updated)
You know who was cool? The Jam. What a great band. You know who isn't cool? JAM -- Jaish al-Mahdi. Those guys pretty much suck. Fighting continued yesterday in both Baghdad an...
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Obama vs. McCain: The Real Fight Begins
As soon as Hillary Clinton ends the charade that is paralyzing the Democratic Party in America, voters can begin weighing the respective foreign policies of John McCain and Ba...
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Entries from The New Combat Contradictionary
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. From the VQR, some excerpts: An Army of One: soldiers who dump their girlfriends/boyfriends right before an overseas deployment ostensibly to ...
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So You Wanna Be a Hezbollah Fighter?
Andrew Lee Butters, last seen by Abu Muqawama with a collection of table-dancing women in the early morning hours on Monot Street, has a piece up on TIME Magazine's Middle Eas...
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Leave the Scots Out of This, Ivan
Anatol Lieven has a pretty good critique of the foreign policy of a potential John McCain presidency going until he reaches this paragraph:Mr McCain exemplifies “Jacksonian na...
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The Biggest Burden?
Oh my goodness, what must Martha Raddatz -- who has been a true friend to U.S. soldiers and their families -- have been thinking when Dick Cheney told her that President Bush ...
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اعتصامات وعصيان مدني
Uh-oh. The Sadr crowd is calling for "protests and civil disobedience" following a crackdown on Shia militias. This could end really well or really badly. Keep your fingers cr...
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Tuesday Morning Reading
1. Troop levels to remain more or less steady in Iraq through December: This has more to do with the Iraqi elections in October than it does with the American election in Nove...
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David Ucko on Learning Counterinsurgency
Everyone has been talking up David Ucko's new article in Orbis -- Innovation or Inertia: The U.S. Military and the Learning of Counterinsurgency. Michael Noonan, Frank Hoffman...
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2008 Afghanistan A to Z Guide
Last year, a friend passed me a copy of the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit's A to Z Guide. It was enormously helpful in understanding everything from the architectu...
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4,000
An ugly milestone....
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COIN in the Colonies
Over at toohotfortnr, where Spencer shares Abu Muqawama's love of both counter-insurgency doctrine and the Raveonettes, we get called out with respect to how the British might...
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No Fun Zone
Those of you stopping by for some March Madness trash talking will have to look elsewhere. AM says we have "serious" things to talk about. (This after telling Charlie not to p...
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AEI: The Way Forward in Iraq
Fred Kagan was on the Charlie Rose Show last week talking about the Surge and Iraq. It really annoys Abu Muqawama how Kagan can't bring himself to ever criticize our efforts i...
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Taking Advising Seriously
I have made no short shrift of my belief in the need for, at minimum, taking seriously selection, training, and employment of combat advisors. I have dealt with in a previous ...
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Opium, Insurgency, and Afghanistan's National Development Strategy
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) releases regular reporting on the opium trade in Afghanistan. They have done excellent work in analyzing the extent of the opium prob...
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Abu Khalil vs. Myers on Inside Iraq
This isn't the most intelligent debate you'll watch on Iraq, but it is one of the most amusing. The contrast between Gen. Richard Myers and As'ad "The Angry Arab" Abu Khalil i...
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Brian Keenan's Return to Beirut
Brian Keenan was kidnapped in Beirut in 1986 by Islamic Jihad, a shadowy civil war-era organization often linked to Hizbollah.* He was released in 1990. The Sunday Times featu...
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Nicholson Baker's Scummy Little Book
Abu Muqawama has a question: why have both the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times enlisted two radical leftists -- Mark Kurlansky and Colm Toibin, respectively -- to rev...
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Veterans Grill Obama and Clinton
Abu Muqawama would have loved to have seen this Q&A session between eight Iraq War veterans and Senators Obama and Clinton, but because he lives outside the U.S., MTV will...